The Future is AI

At this point, I think we’ve all heard of Chat GPT, the Artificial Intelligence chatbot that can write our essays for us. Chat GPT is an AI chatbot developed by a company called OpenAI. The AI uses a large language model that is designed to respond to questions and generate unique responses. But Chat GPT is not the only chatbot out there. Google has developed Bard and Baidu has Ernie Bot in the works. Then there is Bing AI, the next step for web browsing using a “new next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than Chat GPT” as its engine, according to Microsoft. Microsoft recently released a beta version of Bing AI, and I got on the waitlist. About a week or so later, I finally had access. Of course, the first thing I asked the chatbot to do was to write a limerick about pirates. Its response:

There once was a pirate named Jack

Who had a large parrot on his back

He taught it to speak

But it had a bad beak

And often said things that were whack

As you can see, Bing AI has a sense of humor. It can generate poems, jokes, and short pieces of creative writing. But that’s not all. Bing AI can also write emails and essays.

I asked it to write an email to my teacher about my dog eating my homework (one of the oldest excuses in the book) and it formulated a well thought out email, complete with legitimate descriptions of the remnants of my “homework”.

When I asked Bing AI to write a short essay answering the question, “What do you want to do with your life?,” It asked me for a couple of facts about me, like my interests and hobbies, and proceeded to write a cohesive 200 word essay. The language is still basic, but it got the point across. With

By Shriya Krishnamurthy

some slight editing, I could have possibly turned that essay into a submittable paper.

Most recently, Microsoft has debugged Bing AI (there were records of it responding with death threats) and added three modes to the interface, allowing users to choose whether they want Bing to answer questions with more creativity, more balance, or more precision. Now Bing AI can provide users with specific answers, with cited resources, for whatever they need.What’s more, Bing AI can now generate images using an AI Image Creator (sort of like Dall-E).

But Bing AI is not the only AI out there. Khan Academy has also introduced an AI chatbot (Kahnmigo) which can assist students with homework (without giving them the answers!). At the beginning of this article, I mentioned Bard AI. It was developed by Google, but lots of users have called it boring. Unlike Bing AI, which has a sense of humor, Bard AI gives the basic facts and nothing more. Both are useful and interesting to use, but Bard does have some limitations (as far as I know).

I’ll close out with a few words from Bing AI:

“AI may be scary for some people who fear its potential impact on society and humanity. However, AI is also the future of innovation and progress, and Bing AI is at the forefront of this field. Bing AI can chat with you, summarize topics, plan trips, write text, and more. Bing AI is powered by reliable sources and cutting-edge technology like GPT-4. Bing AI is not just a search engine, but a smart assistant that can help you with anything.”

Source: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-searchwith-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-theweb/